The following story reminds me of circumstances at Title Guaranty. During my latter time there, when my complaint was active and shortly before I was terminated, there was a new hire.
His name was Wil Kahapea. On Title Guaranty's documents, he is listed as Asian Pacific Islander. On the EEOC documents, he is listed as Black. Is this the privilege of being "bi - racial"? I remember being told, by the headshake of a well known civil rights lawyer, that it is legal to claim either race when it suits the individual. This could FIX a myriad of administrative problems. I could only wonder it something similar transpired here.
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1 Hawaii schools avoid NCLB penalties By Loren Moreno
About 30 schools filed appeals said Robert McClelland, head of the Department of Education's Systems Accountability Office.
One of those schools, Wheeler Middle, succeeded in getting all No Child sanctions lifted, said principal Brenda Vierra-Chun.
Overall, Wheeler had met its AYP goals, with 76 percent of students proficient in reading and 28 percent proficient in math. However, initial results showed that the percentage of black students proficient in math had failed to reach the federal goal.
Vierra-Chun said she appealed after finding that some of the students were not counted appropriately.
While a school may achieve its campuswide goals in math and reading, it also is required to meet proficiency goals in subcategories such as disadvantaged students, students with limited English proficiency, and various ethnic groups.
If students are not grouped accurately, the test results can get skewed and result in a school not meeting AYP.
Appeals are generally based on whether students are grouped into appropriate categories, McClelland said.
Vierra-Chun said, "What alarmed me was when I saw that such a low percentage of our black students met AYP
"I started to look at individual student scores and found that a lot of our African-American kids were marked as Asian/Pacific Islander, she said.
After gathering the correct data, Vierra-Chun submitted them to the DOE.
This is not the first time that Wheeler has appealed its AYP status Last year, Vierra-Chun said, the school appealed based on the students being counted in the "disadvantaged" category.
